Ubuntu and laptops

[Shawn Christopher]

Same here...My computer worked fine and then about every half hour the
computer just beeped, said it was going down, and then shut off. After I
passed ACPI=off then it works perfectly fine for days. I'd venture to
say weeks at a time. Just a thought

Shawn

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 15:43 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> All other functionality appears fine.
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:39:33 -0700, Shawn Christopher
> <schristopheraz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I kinda came in at the wrong time however is it powering off or what's
> > happening? Also have you tried ACPI=off for the Kernel? Please pardon my
> > ignorance however I'm coming in on the tail end of the conversation and
> > trying to help based on the experience I have had.
> > 
> > Shawn
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 15:27 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> > > Latest available BIOS AFAIK, but I will check.
> > >
> > > The laptop is ACPI only - no APM. It is coming up for a couple of
> > > years old though and it was being superceded when I got it - right
> > > price at the time though.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:31:11 -0500, bnutting <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm thinking that it has to do with your particular laptop. I have a
> > > > Dell Inspiron 5000 and my battery applet seems to work fine.
> > > >
> > > > Do you have the most current BIOS upgrades, if any? I know that way
> > > > back in the day, I had issues with my laptop and APM/ACPI and I needed
> > > > to upgrade my BIOS. When I did upgrade things seemed 'fixed'.
> > > >
> > > > Bryan
> > > >
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> > >
> > 
> > 
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